Toilet chair



Sept. 23, 1952 J. CQMOORE, 11

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Patented Sept. 23,1952

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TOILET CHAIR John C. Moore, H, Oceanside, Calif.

Application June 21, 1946, Serial No. 678,330

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to improvements in toilet chairs, and more particularly to an improved and simplified toilet chair especially for use by tourists, campers, and others where regular facilities are lacking, the primary object of this invention being to provide a compact, collapsible, and easily portable device of this character which can readily be manufactured at low cost and in an attractive and serviceable form.

Other important objects and advantageous features of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description, wherein for illustrative purposes, a non-limitative specific embodiment of the invention is set forth.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of said device partly broken away to reveal details of construction.

Figure 2 is a front elevation, and

Figure 3 is a bottom plan.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the numeral 4 generally designates the improved toilet chair, which comprises an ordinary toilet seat 5 of conventional form and dimensions, and made of suitable or desired material, with four outwardly flaring legs hinged thereto at 6 to swing inwardly to fold against the bottom of the seat 5 when the device is collapsed for carrying and storing.

The legs include the two rear legs 1 and 8 and the two front legs 9 and I0.

Brace bars H and I2 are permanently connected between the lower end portions of the rear and front legs 1 and 9, and 8 and 10 respectively so that these pairs of legs fold and extend together.

For holding the pairs of legs in extended position while thedevice is in use, a combined brace and shield panel 13 is provided which is trapezoidal in shape and has one end or side edge hinged as indicated at H to the inner side of the front leg Ill. The face edge 15 of the panel 13 is provided with spring hooks IE to temporarily clamp on the other front leg 9.

What is claimed is:

In a toilet chair, a seat, a pair of upstanding front legs arranged in convergent spaced relation with respect to each other adjacent one end of said seat, hinged means carried on the under surface of said seat and operatively connected to the upper end of each of said front legs, a pair of upstanding rear legs arranged in convergent spaced relation with respect to each other adjacent to the other end of said seat, hinge means carried on the under surface of said seat and operatively connected to the upper end of each of said rear legs, said pairs of front and rear legs being arranged in divergent relation with respect to each other, a brace bar extending between each of the front and the complemental rear legs and secured thereto, and means carried by one of said front legs and engageable with the other of said front legs for maintaining the respective pairs of complementary legs in their extended position, said last named means comprising a panel extending between said front legs and having one end hingedly connected to one of said front legs, and a clamp 'on the other end of said panel for releasably securing the latter to the other of said front legs.

JOHN C. MOORE, II.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 22,297 Lytle et a1 Dec. 14, 1858 121,344 Elder Nov. 28, 1871 1,600,823 Hess Sept. 21, 1926 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 390,509 Germany Feb. 26, 1924 

